AhsanAmin
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Turkey is closer to United States and Europe and Turkey imports huge amount of gas from Iran despite any international pressure. And they are investing in Iran's gas exploration and gas field devlopment. The volume of Turkey-Iran trade is huge and is probably more than 20 billion dollars. Because Turkish people keep their own interest supreme before the interests of any foreign country's interest.
Just like we talk about trade with India and better ties with India, in a similar spirit, we also must promote trade with Iran and restore friendly ties between the two people without making alliance against any third country.
Really Iran's side of pipeline has been built already which means they are more than willing for gas export to go ahead and we can expect they would be willing to give us good concessions on gas price as opposed to importing costlier gas from Qatar at higher prices. When we make comparison between gas prices Qatar gives India to gas price quoted in our agreements, we say that India is a larger customer so Qatar will not match his per unit price given to India for us. I am sure Iranians would give us a better deal that Qatar has given India per thermal unit of gas because we are a "natural customer" for them which is not the case with Qatar.
And opponents of gas import deal and other trade do not realize, that any aid we get from foreign countries to keep our economic relations with Tehran lukewarm, is going to be less beneficial to our country than the benefit from cheaper gas and trade with Iran.
And we also have to try to diversify our trade partners and start trading more with Iran, India, Afghansistan and China. This really does not mean that we should decrease existing trade with other trading partners, we have to explore markets in our neighboring countries and when we will have more interwined economic interests in our region, there will be far more peace because countries would realize that the cost of making any trading partner unstable will hurt the economic interests of the very country itself. And once there is peace in the region, and we see fruits of peace, more aversion to war and current machiavellian tactics will follow.
Just like we talk about trade with India and better ties with India, in a similar spirit, we also must promote trade with Iran and restore friendly ties between the two people without making alliance against any third country.
Really Iran's side of pipeline has been built already which means they are more than willing for gas export to go ahead and we can expect they would be willing to give us good concessions on gas price as opposed to importing costlier gas from Qatar at higher prices. When we make comparison between gas prices Qatar gives India to gas price quoted in our agreements, we say that India is a larger customer so Qatar will not match his per unit price given to India for us. I am sure Iranians would give us a better deal that Qatar has given India per thermal unit of gas because we are a "natural customer" for them which is not the case with Qatar.
And opponents of gas import deal and other trade do not realize, that any aid we get from foreign countries to keep our economic relations with Tehran lukewarm, is going to be less beneficial to our country than the benefit from cheaper gas and trade with Iran.
And we also have to try to diversify our trade partners and start trading more with Iran, India, Afghansistan and China. This really does not mean that we should decrease existing trade with other trading partners, we have to explore markets in our neighboring countries and when we will have more interwined economic interests in our region, there will be far more peace because countries would realize that the cost of making any trading partner unstable will hurt the economic interests of the very country itself. And once there is peace in the region, and we see fruits of peace, more aversion to war and current machiavellian tactics will follow.
